Hasta La Gadget!

Your wine is about to be assimilated and there is nothing you can do about it. This Borg Wine Bottle Stopper from Venessa of The Wine Pirate is about to assault your open bottle of Sonoma red.

It will hover right on top, keeping your wine safe and fresh, looking menacing and imposing as it decides whether or not to send Locutus as an emissary and warn you of their intentions.

This awesome bottle stopper even lights up with a nice eerie green glow. Batteries are included and are replaceable. This makes a great conversation piece for your next Star Trek themed dinner party.

The Borg Wine Stopper sells for $21.99 (USD). The seller has all kinds of other geeky wine stoppers in her shop too. Be sure to check them out.

Instant ramen soup. It’s an amazing geek food, even if those flavor packets will kill you with MSG and sodium. Gamers especially love the stuff, because of it’s easy to make nature. You can make it and barely be distracted from your game. Well, what if I told you that you could have a Ramen noodle cake?

This awesome Ramen noodle cake is nowhere nearly as easy to make, but I bet it is even more delicious than Ramen noodles. It’s chicken flavored of course, because we all know that is the best flavor. And the flavor packet is a nice touch too. As an added bonus, there’s no MSG here. I think.

No water required for this Ramen package. That would be disgusting.

[via Obvious Winner]

With few exceptions, 3D printers can’t be used to print edible things, but wouldn’t it be extremely cool if we could one day print whatever food we can imagine using 3D printers?

That’s the idea behind the Atomium. The concept device would be equipped with a 3D-imaging camera and software that could turn 2D drawings or photos into 3D objects. When powered on, users could turn their doodles of burgers into the real thing. Cakes, cookies, pasta, pastries – the sky’s the limit.

The idea is that the device could develop foods based on the individual users tastes and desired shape of food. It would even take into account their individual medical profile. Of course, you can’t make food out of nothing. Ingredients would have to be placed inside individual bins on the Atomium’s base. These are then used to “print” edibles, which can be removed from the device’s head.

The goal is to make the Atomium as simple as possible so that even kids can use it. This is definitely one of those concepts that seem pretty far out as of the moment. But that’s how many current technologies started out, so maybe this will become a reality one day.

[via Dvice]

Noodles don’t taste just as good without the soup. That’s the thing I don’t like about chopsticks. They’re fine for picking up meat and veggies and for cramming noodles into your mouth, but unless you’ve got a soup spoon, then you’re left slurping the soup up from the bowl.

Changing all that are Soup Straws by Julian Lechner.

They’re essentially chopsticks that double as straws, so you can slurp some soup in between mouthfuls of noodles without needing any other utensils. This is made possible by the fact that the chopsticks are hollow and have a couple of holes near the tip, allowing them to function as straws.

Unfortunately, they’re only a concept for now. They certainly don’t seem like they’d be difficult to produce, so maybe one day they’ll actually turn these into a reality.

[via MoCo Loco via Gizmodo]

Love lollipops? Have a taste for blue cheese? Then you’ll probably love gourmet lollipop company Lollyphile’s newest offering: blue cheese lollipops. Lollyphile is known for coming up with unusual, if not sometimes scandalous lollipop flavors, like Sriracha and Breast Milk (ewww.)

The blue cheese lollipops were only recently launched, along with a series of promotional images that can be described as downright scary. I get that they’re going with a blue theme, given that it’s blue cheese and all, but I don’t think they had to go and use Effie Trinket as their model.

The lollipops are described as being “sharp, tasty, and edgy.” Since blue cheese is often paired with honey, it was apparently easy to combine both flavors to make the lollipop into a reality.

Lollyphile’s owner, Jason Darling, explains that the blue cheese lollipops “started off as a joke.” He adds: “I was initially scared to try them. My partner, Maria, wasn’t, and she instantly declared it to be delicious. Once I was convinced that she wasn’t pranking me I took a taste, and I had no choice but to agree with her. They’re delicious. I mean, if you like blue cheese. And who doesn’t?”

If your taste buds are up to the challenge, you can order up a batch of blue cheese lollies starting at $10(USD) over at Lollyphile.